Washington, March 14 (IANS) A US senator has introduced legislation to ease visa costs for public schools in Alaska that rely heavily on international teachers, warning that a new $100,000 fee per H-1B visa could worsen already severe staffing shortages.Senator Lisa Murkowski said her bill would exempt K-12 public schools from the high visa fee imposed last year, allowing districts to continue hiring qualified educators from overseas to keep classrooms staffed.“As soon as this proclamation was…
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Washington, March 12 (IANS) More than a century after federal law recognised that Native American reservations carried reserved rights to water, senators returned to a question that remains unresolved for many tribal families in Arizona: why do thousands of homes still lack running water?At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday (local time), lawmakers examined a sweeping settlement intended to resolve decades of disputes over water in north-eastern Arizona involving th…
Washington, Jan 8 (IANS) The Trump administration’s comments on Greenland, framed by officials as a national security issue, set off a political debate in Washington over diplomacy, NATO alliances and US strategy in the Arctic. At a White House briefing on Wednesday (local time), Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the possible acquisition of Greenland by the United States was “something that’s currently being actively discussed by the president and his national security team.”She argued the i…